The official call for entries for the Seoul International Drama Awards 2016 ended on May 6. 265 TV entries from 51 countries around the world have been submitted, the highest number since the festival’s inception in 2006 (that’s 2,042 TV entries in 11 years). This total breaks down as follow: 62 TV movies; 120 mini-series; […]
Earlier this month, news was reported that Japanese telco SoftBank was looking to disvest from DramaFever, and that Warner Bros is a likely acquirer. The news followed the unexpected decision of acquiring British drama series from BBC Worldwide, the distribution arm of the BBC, for the U.S. only. The deal is apparently the first of […]
Registrations for the Seoul Drama Awards 2015 just came to an end on April 30 23:59. While Korean TV dramas traditionally constitute the centre piece of the country’s most prestigious TV event, foreign TV fiction is taking a larger space across the TV series, miniseries and TV movie categories. Three Korean dramas will be competing […]
Cultural trends are often combinations of the zeitgeist and more rational triggers. Among them is the work and efforts of those who, behind the scene, have directly or indirectly, actively or passively, promoted them. In the case of Korean dramas, we could say that Korean TV executives may have indirectly made their colleagues aware of the audience’s […]
On November 7, 2013, president Park Geun-hye opened an era of collaboration between South Korea and the UK creative industries as she attended the opening ceremony of the London Korean Film Festival where ministers of culture and media of both countries signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU). She had also attended a K-Drama Day in […]
In April 2014, it was announced that KBS had acquired the rights to broadcast BBC Worldwide’s TV series The Muskateers. Less than three months later, and even before the broadcast, CJ E&M announced today that it has commissioned a TV adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel for its tvN cable channel. We were mentioning in other articles […]
Viki is a video streaming website headquartered in Singapore. It initially came to life in 2007 as a class project, aiming at using YouTube videos as a tool for language learning, between Stanford’s Razmig Hovaghimian and Harvard’s Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon. Given the nationality of its cofounders but also the fact Razmig had been […]